Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Reconstitution reveals how myosin-VI self-organises to generate a dynamic mechanism of membrane sculpting

  • Benoit Rogez,
  • Laeschkir Würthner,
  • Anastasiia B. Petrova,
  • Felix B. Zierhut,
  • Dario Saczko-Brack,
  • Maria-Ana Huergo,
  • Christopher Batters,
  • Erwin Frey,
  • Claudia Veigel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11268-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Curvature-mediating proteins are known to induce specific membrane shapes, but whether motorprotein-lipid interactions remodel membranes too remains unclear. Here authors show that curvature-dependent lipid interactions of myosin-VI remodel the membrane geometry into dynamic spatial patterns.